# Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 July and 1 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:
| World record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |
| Competition record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:51.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.70 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:57.73 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 2 | Wang Shun | China | 1:57.83 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 7 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:58.02 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:58.46 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 1:58.54 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Henrique Rodrigues | Brazil | 1:58.73 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Daniel Tranter | Australia | 1:58.76 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Markus Deibler | Germany | 1:58.76 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:58.78 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 2 | Kenneth To | Australia | 1:59.21 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 6 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:59.25 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 8 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 1:59.39 | Q, NR |
| 14 | 3 | 3 | Roberto Pavoni | Great Britain | 1:59.41 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Mao Feilian | China | 1:59.68 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 8 | Joseph Schooling | Singapore | 1:59.99 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 3 | Jérémy Stravius | France | 2:00.00 | |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 2:00.01 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:00.02 | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Yakov-Yan Toumarkin | Israel | 2:00.13 | |
| 21 | 5 | 0 | Albert Puig | Spain | 2:00.49 | |
| 22 | 5 | 2 | Ieuan Lloyd | Great Britain | 2:00.65 | |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | Andrew Ford | Canada | 2:01.69 | |
| 24 | 5 | 8 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:01.71 | |
| 25 | 2 | 3 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:01.92 | |
| 26 | 5 | 9 | Michael Meyer | South Africa | 2:01.96 | |
| 27 | 4 | 0 | Taki Mrabet | Tunisia | 2:02.22 | |
| 28 | 3 | 6 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 2:02.23 | |
| 29 | 2 | 0 | Mohamed Khaled | Egypt | 2:02.29 | NR |
| 30 | 3 | 9 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 2:02.40 | |
| 31 | 2 | 8 | Yury Suvorau | Belarus | 2:02.60 | NR |
| 32 | 2 | 4 | Aleksey Derlyugov | Uzbekistan | 2:02.79 | |
| 33 | 4 | 9 | Ward Bauwens | Belgium | 2:03.24 | |
| 34 | 2 | 2 | Maksym Shemberev | Ukraine | 2:03.49 | |
| 35 | 1 | 6 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:03.55 | |
| 36 | 2 | 5 | Im Tae-Jeong | South Korea | 2:03.61 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Bogdan Knezevic | Serbia | 2:03.72 | |
| 37 | 2 | 9 | Ensar Hajder | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:03.72 | NR |
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Pavel Janecek | Czech Republic | 2:03.83 | |
| 40 | 3 | 0 | Mitchell Donaldson | New Zealand | 2:03.89 | |
| 41 | 2 | 1 | Fran Krznarić | Croatia | 2:04.51 | |
| 42 | 1 | 3 | Pedro Pinotes | Angola | 2:04.85 | |
| 43 | 1 | 2 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:05.08 | NR |
| 44 | 2 | 6 | Miguel Robles | Mexico | 2:05.43 | |
| 45 | 1 | 5 | Vasilii Danilov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:07.66 | |
| 46 | 1 | 1 | Marko Blaževski | North Macedonia | 2:07.78 | |
| 47 | 1 | 8 | Bartal Hestoy | Faroe Islands | 2:09.46 | NR |
| 48 | 1 | 0 | Eli Ebenezer Wong | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:09.59 | |
| 49 | 1 | 7 | Jean Luis Gomez | Dominican Republic | 2:10.78 | |
| 50 | 1 | 9 | Douglas Miller | Fiji | 2:14.27 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:16.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:57.38 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 1:57.52 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:58.03 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Daniel Tranter | Australia | 1:58.10 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:58.17 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:58.56 | |
| 7 | 1 | Roberto Pavoni | Great Britain | 1:59.44 | |
| 8 | 8 | Joseph Schooling | Singapore | 2:00.49 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:57.07 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.41 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Wang Shun | China | 1:57.80 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Markus Deibler | Germany | 1:58.53 | |
| 5 | 6 | Henrique Rodrigues | Brazil | 1:59.47 | |
| 6 | 7 | Kenneth To | Australia | 1:59.54 | |
| 7 | 8 | Mao Feilian | China | 1:59.65 | |
| 8 | 1 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.09 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:13.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:54.98 | |
| | 5 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:56.29 | |
| | 6 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 1:56.30 | |
| 4 | 2 | Wang Shun | China | 1:56.86 | NR |
| 5 | 3 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.70 | |
| 6 | 1 | Daniel Tranter | Australia | 1:57.88 | |
| 7 | 7 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:58.45 | |
| 8 | 8 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:59.79 | |